It looks like we add a stroke to text to make it bolder. There were a few cases where we would update the fill color of text but not the stroke color, leading to a slight different-colored halo around text. It was happening in links before, see below:
Before:
After:
That said, it looks like this text stroke may be the cause of https://github.com/processing/p5.js-website/issues/473. I'm not sure how standard this property is, and whether it's a good idea to be using it across the board on body text like this. Possibly a sign that we should just be using a thicker font instead?
Thanks @davepagurek. I'm merging this solution for now, and we can have schedule a chat with the web designer with all the issues and PRs labelled Web Design soon.
Qianqianye
commented
2 months ago
Resolves https://github.com/processing/p5.js-website/issues/518
It looks like we add a stroke to text to make it bolder. There were a few cases where we would update the fill color of text but not the stroke color, leading to a slight different-colored halo around text. It was happening in links before, see below:
Before:
After:
That said, it looks like this text stroke may be the cause of https://github.com/processing/p5.js-website/issues/473. I'm not sure how standard this property is, and whether it's a good idea to be using it across the board on body text like this. Possibly a sign that we should just be using a thicker font instead?